Recaps

Qin Hao advanced his swordsmanship and martial soul while preparing for his life-and-death battle with Pei Shan. He defeated Pei Shan, but Lei Wu intervened and killed him, leaving Qin Hao to claim the victory and celebrate with his companions.

• Qin Hao chose the Blazing Sky Sword, then earned contribution points through missions until Mu Ziqing took him to the Sword Monument.
• Qin Hao wagered ten thousand contribution points with Lei Yi, comprehended the Monument’s sword moves, and collected his winnings after proving his success.
• Qin Hao reached the fifth rank with his sword martial soul and trained his body and swordsmanship as Pei Shan prepared for their duel with help from Yang Benhong and Lei Yi.
• Qin Hao and Pei Shan fought before a crowd, and Qin Hao used the Nine Swords of the Azure Lotus, including its Eighth and Ninth Swords, against Pei Shan.
• Pei Shan used the Seven-Kill Pearl to break Qin Hao’s sword blades, but Qin Hao summoned his fifth-rank martial soul and overwhelmed him.
• Qin Hao crippled Pei Shan, but Lei Wu secretly killed Pei Shan before the duel could end, and Qin Hao claimed the Eight-Winged Treasure Armor as the victor.
• Jiang Fengquan and Dong Fei told Qin Hao that Mu Ziqing had supported him, and Qin Hao invited his companions to celebrate while Bu Yunfeng watched from the Heavenly Drink House.

Qin Hao advanced his sword skills and cultivation in the Crimson Flame Mountains, where he rescued a Cloudwing Beast Cub and killed Yuchi Yu. He returned to Tianshui City, reclaimed the Qin family’s position, survived an assassination attempt, and learned that his mother Qi Yuelan was alive.

• Qin Hao trained at the Sword Monument, developed sword intent, and accepted a mission to gather crimson flame resources in the Crimson Flame Mountains.
• Qin Hao defeated Yuchi Yu and his disciples after they forced captives to scout the Flame Marsh, then rescued a Cloudwing Beast Cub and found crimson flame treasures.
• Qin Hao returned to Tianshui City and learned that Liu Ruoxue and Lei Zhen had helped the Liu family seize the Qin family’s businesses and injure Qin Yuntian.
• Qin Hao attacked the Liu Residence, defeated Liu Fangzhi, Yue Yilin, and other Liu family members, and ordered the family expelled from the city.
• Qin Hao supplied the Qin family with pills, weapons, and martial manuals, while Qin Yuntian recovered from his injuries and advanced his cultivation.
• The Bearded Man, Fifth Brother, and the Hook-Nosed Man tried to assassinate Qin Hao, but Qin Hao and the arriving Qin family members defeated them and found Shadow Guard command flags.
• Qin Yuntian took Qin Hao to Qi Yuelan’s old room and revealed that she was alive and that her supposed death in a mudslide had been staged.

Qin Hao survived the beast tide, defeated Tian Yunfeng, and advanced in cultivation while gaining sword intent. Back at the Myriad Phenomena Hall, he prepared for the Stone Man Secret Realm and began the Ten Bronze Men trial as Liu Ruoxue watched.

• Qin Hao joined the Myriad Phenomena Hall disciples defending Hengshui City and fought Tian Yunfeng during the beast tide, where he began comprehending Wind Force.
• After Tian Yunfeng used Gu Demon Powder to draw monsters onto Qin Hao, Qin Hao seized a mysterious black iron fragment and used monster inner cores to break through to the Myriad Forms Realm.
• Qin Hao pursued Tian Yunfeng until a Life-Saving Jade Slip protected him, then returned to the battlefield as Black Sword Qi killed tier three monsters and an elder who tried to seize it.
• Cui Feng tried to arrest Qin Hao, but Chi Zhenheng stopped him, and Qin Hao later recovered, reached Meridian Opening First Layer, and returned to the Myriad Phenomena Hall with Zhu Jingming.
• Qin Hao mastered the Sword Monument’s eleventh move and comprehended sword intent while Tian Zhongtian plotted to obtain stone man essence to heal Tian Yunfeng.
• Feng Han defeated Jing Huai and claimed thirty-ninth place on the Bronze Ranking, while Liu Ruoxue failed to defeat the Ten Bronze Men.
• Qin Hao entered the Ten Bronze Men trial without drawing his sword and punched the bronze men aside, leaving a deep mark in one of their heads.

Qin Hao challenged the Bronze Men Combined Formation, rose through the Bronze Ranking, and entered the Stone Man Secret Realm, where he fought the Stone Puppet King and absorbed its essence. He emerged with a sixth-rank Little Sword Martial Soul and a new auxiliary martial soul, but Lei Yifei and the others turned against him over the essence.

• Qin Hao defeated all ten bronze men, absorbed their power feedback, and earned the thirty-first Bronze Ranking position by defeating Lei Chi in three moves.
• Qin Hao entered the Stone Man Secret Realm with the Bronze Ranking geniuses, advanced through waves of stone puppets, and joined the fight against the Stone Puppet King.
• Shi Yongbo and the geniuses coordinated their attacks on the Stone Puppet King, and Qin Hao used sword intent to shatter its arm and claim four essence mystic stones.
• Tian Yunfeng lured out a second Stone Puppet King, but a one-armed Stone Puppet King killed him and other geniuses before absorbing the second king’s essence.
• The strengthened Stone Puppet King attacked Qin Hao, who clung to it and used his Little Sword Martial Soul to devour its Stone Man Essence.
• Lei Yifei struck Qin Hao and the Stone Puppet King into a fissure, where Qin Hao’s Little Sword Martial Soul reached the sixth rank and formed a stone man auxiliary martial soul.
• Qin Hao broke through to the early stage of meridian opening second layer, memorized a map revealed by his new martial soul, and rode the Stone Puppet King back out of the fissure.
• Lei Yifei, Shi Yongbo, Tuoba Xin, and Yue Zhou demanded the stone man essence, but Qin Hao refused and said he had already refined it, prompting them to prepare to attack.